(1915-1981) fourth General Chief of Staff of the Israeli military, former member of the Knesset, one of the founders of former political parties, former Defense Minister and Foreign Minister
born May 20, 1915, Deganya, Palestine died Oct. 16, 1981, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel Israeli soldier and statesman. Born of Russian parents in Israel's first kibbutz, he became a guerrilla fighter against Arab raiders during the period of the British mandate. Although jailed briefly by the British for his involvement with the Hagana organization, he lost an eye fighting alongside British forces in Syria during World War II (1939-45). He was a commander in the Israeli army during the first Arab-Israel war (1948-49). He was army chief of staff during the Suez Crisis (1956) and later agriculture minister (1959-64). He was appointed defense minister just before the Six-Day War (1967), and the Israeli victory brought him widespread adulation; he served until 1974. He joined the Likud party government as foreign minister when it came into power in 1977 and helped broker the 1978 Camp David Accords
born July 14, 1938, Haifa, Palestine Israeli-Canadian architect. Educated at McGill University School of Architecture, Montreal, he began his career in the offices of Louis Kahn. His Habitat '67 was a bold experiment in prefabricated housing using modular units; the design was for a prefabricated concrete housing complex of individual apartment units stacked irregularly along a zigzagged framework that was evocative of an Italian hill town or a pueblo. This aroused intense international interest but failed to catch on as a low-cost housing construction method. Later works include Yeshivat Porat Joseph Rabbinical College in Jerusalem (1971-79) and Coldspring New Town near Baltimore (1971). He served as director of urban design at Harvard University, 1978-84